Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
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upright man who can accommodate himself generally to all my wants.
37 [Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former. And the world feels this and does so; for the world is often a good judge.] 38 A poet and not an honest man. 39 If lightning fell on low places, etc., poets, and those who can only reason about things of that kind, would lack proofs. 40 If we wished to prove the examples which we take to prove other things, we should have to take those other things to be examples; for, as we always believe the difficulty is in what we wish to prove, we find the examples clearer and a help to demonstration. |
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